{"id":21448,"date":"2016-12-24T07:46:03","date_gmt":"2016-12-24T12:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=21448"},"modified":"2019-11-26T07:23:28","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T12:23:28","slug":"have-yourself-a-merry-little-truck-mascot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/12\/24\/have-yourself-a-merry-little-truck-mascot\/","title":{"rendered":"Have Yourself a Merry Little Truck Mascot"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>While this may not count as a true Truck Mascot<\/em><\/a> being that the vehicle is not a truck but a school bus, I feel it’s close enough. It is mostly a big International<\/em> truck adapted to haul kids off to school. Kudos for getting into the spirit of the season and the strange urban phenomena of Truck Mascots.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This bus was dropping off kids attending a charter school in the vicinity of 11th and Market Streets in Philadelphia, PA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While this may not count as a true Truck Mascot being that the vehicle is not a truck but a school bus, I feel it’s close enough. It is mostly a big International truck adapted to haul kids off to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[757],"tags":[78,86,354,3669,727,1150,1159,4033,4010],"class_list":["post-21448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-truck-mascots","tag-bus","tag-christmas","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-school","tag-truck-mascot","tag-winter","tag-wreath","tag-yellow"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-5zW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":44144,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2024\/11\/27\/the-amazing-truck-mascot\/","url_meta":{"origin":21448,"position":0},"title":"The Amazing Truck Mascot","author":"Joe","date":"November 27, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Here in Lansdowne, PA is another fine example of the urban phenomena of Truck Mascots. 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